[rad-green] Los Angeles City Council Approves Resolution in Favor of Medicare for All

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/05/huge-moment-movement-los-angeles-city-council-approves-resolution-favor-medicare-all
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/05/huge-moment-movement-los-angeles-city-council-approves-resolution-favor-medicare-all>Common
Dreams          November 5, 2019*





*'A Huge Moment for the Movement': Los Angeles City Council Approves
Resolution in Favor of Medicare for All"Today's resolution sends a powerful
message to Congress that the people of Los Angeles demand that health care
be treated as a right, not a privilege."by Jon Queally, staff writer*

[image: Propopents of the resolution backing Medicare for All celebrate
outside the City Council chamber room in Los Angeles after the 10 to 1 vote
in favor of passage on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. (Photo: Bonnie
Castillo/NNU/CNA)]

*Propopents of the resolution backing Medicare for All celebrate outside
the City Council chamber room in Los Angeles after the 10 to 1 vote in
favor of passage on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. (Photo: Bonnie
Castillo/NNU/CNA)*

With a nearly unanimous vote on Tuesday the Los Angeles City
Council—representing the nation's second most populous city—passed a
resolution endorsing federal Medicare for All legislation.

Labor unions and progressive advocacy groups applauded the 10 to 1 vote of
the council as a key victory in the broader fight to win Medicare for All
nationally.

Backers of the resolution specifically sought the council's officials
approval of House Resolution (H.R.) 1384, The Medicare for All
Act—introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)—which, according
<https://ens.lacity.org/clk/councilagendas/clkcouncilagendas3135900_11052019.html>
to
a city council document, would "expand health care coverage, eliminate
health care disparities, and lower the cost of health care for all United
States residents."

Melinda St. Louis, director of Public Citizen's Medicare for All Campaign,
said
<https://www.citizen.org/news/los-angeles-city-council-votes-to-support-medicare-for-all-urges-congress-to-act/>
local
endorsements like this are crucial because city councilors and other
officials "have a front-row seat to the devastation wrought by our
inequitable and cruel for-profit health care system."

Passage of the resolution, added St. Louis, is a credit to grassroots
activists and regular people who have educated their neighbors and friends
and agitated lawmakers for change.

"Today's resolution," she said, "sends a powerful message to Congress that
the people of Los Angeles demand that health care be treated as a right,
not a privilege. We hope that the members of Congress representing
districts in Los Angeles who have not yet co-sponsored Medicare for All
legislation—including U.S. Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-Calif.), who sits on a key
committee—will heed the call that it’s time to get on board and fight for
guaranteed health care for all."

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